Abstract [en]

This interview study has been conducted with the purpose of investigating how the songwriter and songwriting teacher experience their life-world and by it visualize the songwriter's pedagogical perspective. Qualitative research interviews have been made with four songwriters and teachers in the subject of songwriting to investigate the phenomenon. The informants are active in the upper secondary school as music teachers. The result and analysis is done with a hermeneutic and phenomenological approach from a life-world perspective. Interview studies have shown that the informants find that their writing helps them to be structured, focused and to complete and achieve results, as well as process impulses and feelings. All informants testify to how the writing has become a way for informants to process events in life, easy as complicated, as a kind of therapy. The passion for their writing has been strengthened and become one with the informants the longer time passed and the more time the informants have given the music. They claim that inspiration is something that comes from the "making" and that it can be evoked if you only get started, and that the desire to own your own artistry is an important component of the creation that drive the songwriter forward.